DevOps Engineer ($60,000 - $100,000 Annually DOE)

ELM Utility Services is a nationwide company with over 1300 employees, currently seeking a DevOps Engineer in the Missoula, Montana area. The role focuses on strengthening the build, shipping, and operational processes in Azure, emphasizing CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, and secure operations. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps Pipelines for applications and data services (build/test/release) Standardize pipeline templates, approvals, environments, and promotion strategies across teams Improve release reliability: versioning, automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation Support repo workflows in Azure DevOps (branch policies, PR checks, code quality gates) Improve platform consistency: reusable modules, baseline policies, and repeatable patterns Own Datadog observability practices across services: dashboards, monitors, alert routing, SLOs, log/trace/metric strategy Improve troubleshooting and operational readiness: runbooks, incident response workflows, post-incident improvements Drive performance and reliability improvements in partnership with engineering (capacity signals, latency/error budgets) Implement secure CI/CD practices: secret management, least privilege service principals, pipeline permissions, artifact integrity Support vulnerability management in the delivery pipeline (dependency scanning, code scanning, baseline hardening) Help enforce environment controls: approvals, change tracking, auditability, and access standards Create self-service tooling and standards that make teams faster (templates, docs, golden paths) Partner with engineers to improve build times, test stability, deployment confidence, and operational maturity Support internal platform documentation (Azure DevOps Wiki/runbooks) and knowledge sharing Skills 1–5+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or systems engineering with strong software delivery ownership Experience supporting production systems with on-call/incident response expectations (formal or informal) Cloud fundamentals (compute, networking, identity, logging/monitoring patterns, resource governance) Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts; environment approvals; service connections) Datadog (monitors, dashboards, logs, APM/tracing, alert routing, tagging strategy) CI/CD best practices: build/test automation, deployment strategies, environment promotion, rollback patterns Container workflows (Docker, ACR, containerized deployments) Azure security tooling familiarity (Defender for Cloud concepts, key management, conditional access patterns) Database delivery patterns (migrations, DACPACs, schema change controls) Familiarity with GitHub Advanced Security or similar scanning tools (if applicable) Benefits Voluntary Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA, H.S.A., and Teladoc. Company Paid Life Insurance up to $50,000 Paid-Time Off (PTO) for vacation and sick time purposes 6 Paid Holidays 401(k) plan Bonuses for milestone anniversaries Annual reviews with opportunity for pay increases Competitive pay based on experience Long history of stable employment and promoting from within Opportunity to lead and modernize production systems with meaningful operational impact Company Overview ELM Utility Services specializing in public utility locating helping utilities and contractors find and mark underground infrastructure. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is